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Mark your calendar for these 2 workshops on Emergency Fire
Lead by Ernie & Erica Weisner from Oregon
leading exerts in Rocket Stove technology & construction
August 25 “Pocket Rocket” Construction, Detroit, MI
August 26 “Rocket Stove” Principles & Experiments – Oxford, MI
FEE:
Full Pay $65 for 1 day… $100 for both days
Reduced fee, $25 for 1 day… $50 for both days
Extra donations - to help cover costs -- is appreciated !
* Private Consultations with Ernie & Erica are available.
Call or email: cell 503-807-6212 eritter@gmail.com
www.ErnieAndErica.info
“BUILD YOUR OWN POCKET ROCKET STOVE”
for Emergency Heating & Cooking
Saturday, August 25, 2012
held at
9:30a – 5p Spirit Hope Church & Urban Farm
1519 Martin Luther King Drive Detroit, MI 48208
5:30p – 8:30p Dr. Bob’s for a TOUR & Food for sale at the Golden Gate Café
18700 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48203 4 blocks south of 7 mile Rd.
We will be constructing a “Do-it-yourself Pocket Rocket wood stove” as an emergency heater or cooker.
This technology burns all the fuel as cleanly as possible. We will also lay up an outdoor Rumford Fireplace.
Bring your own materials if you want to take one home.
Carpool to Dr. Bob’s to see examples of functioning Rocket Stove Heated Bench & a Rumford Fireplace retrofit.
Enjoy a meal at the Golden Gate café if you wish to purchase their wonderful food.
AGENDA
9:30 a – 12 noon SLIDESHOW
HANDS-ON DEMO of an outdoor Rumford Fireplace.
Noon lunch Bring your own bag lunch, or buy a meal from Spirit Hope ($5)
1p – 5p DEMO OF Pocket Rocket Construction
Bring your own materials if you want to take one home.
5:30 – 8:30 pm TOUR. Carpool toDr. Bob’s18700 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48203 (S of 7 mile Rd.)
and see a
· ROCKET STOVE HEATED BENCH,
· an efficient RUMFORD FIREPLACE retrofit in a regular fireplace
and a COB WALL under construction.
Bring your own food or snack or …..
FOOD is available to purchase at theGolden Gate Cafe
soup $5, salad $4 - 7, veggie sandwiches $7, stirfry $10 .
drinks, $3, smoothies $5, pizza whole $12, slice $3
Help support this community café with your purchase !
Overnight accommodations (rustic) are available at the Strawbale Studio on Saturday night: some beds, cots & camping spaces. Reserve your space now with Deanne (below).
First come First Serve. Bring your own bedding & towels if you can.
“DIRTY SECRETS OF CLEAN FIRE”
SUNDAY AUG 26, 2012 10a – 5p
at the
Strawbale Studio, 2691 Noble Rd., Oxford, MI 48370
Directions:www.strawbale.pbworks.com/go www.strawbalestudio.org
Contact Deanne 248 628 1887 or cell 248 496 4088 or ecoartdb@gmail.com
·
Dirty Secrets of Clean Fire. Testing efficiency of different designs.
Bricklaying and working with earthen masonry.
See Rocket Stove Mass Heaters, Earth Oven, Rocket Cooker (L -shaped)
Demonstrations of some of the above. Mock up of the combustion
chamber.
9:30 - 5p AGENDA
30 min - 1 hr. Recap of Saturday, bring people up to speed.
3 hr Design principles and hands-on experimentation on how to make stoves burn efficiently.
POTLUCK LUNCH Bring food or a snack to share for lunch.
2 hr Look at what we have, compare stoves on site, and suggest improvements:
Pocket Rocket Cooking Stove, The Totem Rocket Stove Heated Bench, Kids
Cottage Heated Bench under construction, two Earth Ovens.
Click on the Registration Link.
FEE:
Full Pay $65 for 1 day… $100 for both days
Reduced fee, $25 for 1 day… $50 for both days
Extra donations - to help cover costs -- is appreciated !
* Private Consultations with Ernie & Erica are available.
Call or email: cell 503-807-6212 eritter@gmail.com
www.ErnieAndErica.info
Below is information from Ernie & Erica.
http://www.ErnieAndErica.info/upcoming_workshops
Hello everyone,
We have a full schedule for our trans- North American tour this summer and fall.
We need to confirm details with our hosts, and get busy spreading the word so everyone has a great workshop.
I've copied all the hosts to introduce you to each other (and BCC'd a few other interested parties like the private clients below).
Look forward to seeing you soon.
2012 Workshop Itinerary:
Western States
June 8-10: Reno, NV - Rocket Mass Heater (full installation in existing farm building; hosts are experienced permaculture teachers.) - Neil Bertrando & Loping Coyote - "Neil Bertrando" <neilbertrando@gmail.com>, "sarah rosenbloom" <rosenbloom.sm@gmail.com>, (775)771-1833)
July 6-8: Riverside, WA - Rocket Mass Heater (full installation in existing cabin; primitive camping by a lovely mountain lake - Chris West, coyotespath@hotmail.com, 509-522-8541)
July 14-15: Skagit Valley WA -- Earthen Oven (hand-building over sand mold, on a lovely herb farm - Jessica @ Harmony Fields Farm, hfproduce@gmail.com, 360-941-8196)
(July 21-22: Seattle, WA - Homebuilt Boats Festival - Center for Wooden Boats, www.cwb.org)
Rockies to Great Lakes
(August 4: Missoula, MT - Local site planning and Missoula Farmer's Market)
August 7: Private site visit, northern Minnesota August 9-12: Ely, Minnesota - Rocket Mass Heater (semi-private installation with canoe-camping options; contact Ron if interested - <filterdrum@yahoo.com>)
August 17-19: Sleepy Hollow, Michigan - Rocket Mass Heater (multiple demonstration projects using farm/junkyard technology - Susana Villareal-Quintela segareiner@mutualdata.com) August 25-26: Detroit, Michigan - Pocket Rockets and Emergency Heat (Deanne Bednar and the Straw Bale Studio crew - ecoartDB@gmail.com 248 628 1887)
(August 29-30: Possible private site in Detroit area)
Mid-Atlantic to New England
September 7-9: Pittsburgh, PA - Rocket Mass Heaters (backyard prototype build, possible installation) - Nancy Martin-Silber <nancym@ccicenter.org> and Isaac Hill (BCC'd)
September 14-16: Yestermorrow, Vermont - (prototyping and demonstration) - Dan Eckstein - www.yestermorrow.org, search under "Rocket"
(September 22-23: Maine Country Faire (Common Ground Faire))
September 28-30: NewForest Institute - Rocket Mass Heater (full installation at a lovely green educational site) - Lisa Packard <lisa@newforestinstitute.org>
Eastern Canada and Back to the Rockies
October 4-8: Fredericton NB, Canada (semi-private intensive) - thebeemidwife@gmail.com (October 14-15: Possible private visit in PEI / possible Columbia, MO area workshop)
October 26-28: Missoula, MT: Rocket Mass Heaters for Flexible Lifestyles: the Wheaton Portable Rocket Mass Heater, Rumford's Radiant Fireplace, and Rocket Canning / Turkey Fryer Stove. Paul Wheaton,paul@richsoil.com; for registration call Caleb: 406-529-0886
For details about the workshop content, or to ask for a private consultation en route, please contact Ernie and Erica Wisner, 503-807-6212; questions@ErnieAndErica.info. This schedule and workshop details are also available on the website at http://www.ErnieAndErica.info/upcoming_workshops
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